K & K Sound System FanTaStick / Classical Guitar Pickup

The real guitar sound with all its natural frequencies and resonances is being transmitted directly at the sound source, the bridge. Super-Light Construction - To meet these requirements for the K&K FanTaStick Classic, the K&K engineers used a "super-light" construction principle. Only ultra-thin material cradles the piezo crystals, which ensures the unrestrained transfer of the soundboard vibrations directly to the piezo crystals. This eliminates the need to provide electronic post-processing to improve the sound, as is the case with many other bridge pickups. Compensated High E String - During the development K&K discovered that when different classic guitars were tested, the high E-string always transmitted more finger-picking noise than the other strings. The solution to this problem was to fit the FanTaStick Classic with special piezo crystal for the high E-string. This single crystal records less bass frequencies than the other crystals, so that the finger picking impact of all 6 strings is transduced equally. High Output - Due to its naturally high output, the FanTaStick can be directly connected to an amplifier or mixer without a preamp. If you are plugging into a PA system or mixer board you may need a preamp to increase the signal strength to match that system. We recommend using the K&K Pure Preamp or the K&K Pure XLR Preamp, both of which are perfectly matched to the FanTaStick pickup .